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Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
...Shelley Clark; Dana Hamplová Abstract Single motherhood in sub-Saharan Africa has received surprisingly little attention, although it is widespread and has critical implications for children’s well-being. Using survival analysis techniques, we estimate the probability of becoming a single mother...
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Life course transitions of American children: Parental cohabitation, marriage, and single motherhood
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 205–217.
Published: 01 May 1999
... Press . LIFE COURSE TRANSITIONS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN: PARENTAL COHABITATION, MARRIAGE, AND SINGLE MOTHERHOOD· DEBORAH ROEMPKE GRAEFE AND DANIEL T. LICHTER We examine the life course transitions into and from families headed by unmarried cohabiting couples for a recent cohort of American children...
View articletitled, Life course transitions of American children: Parental cohabitation, marriage, and <span class="search-highlight">single</span> <span class="search-highlight">motherhood</span>
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Entry or exit? A transition-probability approach to explaining the high prevalence of single motherhood among black women
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 369–376.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Michael S. Rendall Abstract I analyze the prevalence of single motherhood among black and non-Hispanic white women in terms of differences in entry and exit. Higher initial entry rates among black women, especially through unpartnered childbearing, account for slightly more than half the difference...
View articletitled, Entry or exit? A transition-probability approach to explaining the high prevalence of <span class="search-highlight">single</span> <span class="search-highlight">motherhood</span> among black women
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The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1161–1185.
Published: 01 August 2024
...David Brady; Regina S. Baker; Ryan Finnigan Abstract Many claim a high prevalence of single motherhood plays a significant role in America's high child poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we compare the “prevalences and penalties” for child poverty across 30 rich democracies and within...
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View articletitled, The Role of <span class="search-highlight">Single</span> <span class="search-highlight">Motherhood</span> in America's High Child Poverty
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Trends in child poverty and the prevalence of single motherhood in the Unit...
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Fig. 5 Trends in child poverty and the prevalence of single motherhood in the United States in 1979–2019, indexed to 1979 = 100
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1377–1402.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Susan Harkness Abstract This study examines how motherhood earnings penalties in combination with the cost of partner absence affect single mothers' economic well-being. Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for 1990–2015 and fixed-effects models with individual-specific...
View articletitled, The Accumulation of Economic Disadvantage: The Influence of Childbirth and Divorce on the Income and Poverty Risk of <span class="search-highlight">Single</span> Mothers
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Beyond single mothers: Cohabitation and marriage in the AFDC program
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 259–278.
Published: 01 August 1998
... rules governing cohabitation and marriage. The survey results indicate that, in a number of respects, AFDC rules encourage cohabitation. Finally, we conduct an analysis of the impact of AFDC rules on cohabitation, marriage, and single motherhood and find weak evidence in support of incentives to cohabit...
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Trends in actual child poverty and simulated child poverty based on counter...
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Fig. 7 Trends in actual child poverty and simulated child poverty based on counterfactual prevalences of single motherhood in the United States, 1979–2019
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Child poverty in the United States (2018): Actual, predicted, and simulated...
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Fig. 6 Child poverty in the United States (2018): Actual, predicted, and simulated poverty based on the counterfactual prevalence of single motherhood (in parentheses). See Figure 1 for country abbreviations.
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Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 607–627.
Published: 01 November 2004
... disparity in parental resources and that the government can do more to close the gap between rich and poor children. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Single Motherhood Demographic Transition Maternal Employment Russell Sage Foundation Father Absence...
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The Long-Term Costs of Family Trajectories: Women’s Later-Life Employment and Earnings Across Europe
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1007–1034.
Published: 23 April 2020
.... In this subsection, we discuss delayed motherhood, childless women with a partner, single mothers, and childless women without a partner (single-living women). Partnered women’s later-life labor market outcomes may differ by timing of childbearing. The earlier women enter parenthood, the earlier they need...
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View articletitled, The Long-Term Costs of Family Trajectories: Women’s Later-Life Employment and Earnings Across Europe
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Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 719–746.
Published: 09 March 2012
... implication of our study. As noted at the outset, an extensive demographic literature explores the relationship between single motherhood and poverty. Indeed, it would be reasonable to suggest that single motherhood may be the most well-studied correlate of poverty. Although a literature exists on cross...
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Demography 11979673.
Published: 04 June 2025
... after we controlled for household economic conditions, which were better in 2021 than in 2019 for all groups, particularly single mothers. In sum, trends in motherhood mental health advantages continued throughout the pandemic. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 The Authors 2025 Freely...
View articletitled, The Emergent <span class="search-highlight">Motherhood</span> Mental Health Advantage: Did Pandemic Times Make a Difference?
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1207–1233.
Published: 01 August 2023
... or interrupted work and single motherhood. This finding aligns with and extends Flippen and Parrado's (2015) finding that immigrant Mexican women's work trajectories are responsive to their educational attainment in Mexico, but not once the women are in the United States. However, this does not mean...
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View articletitled, How Education Shapes Women's Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity
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The impact of economic resources on premarital childbearing and subsequent marriage among young American women
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 105–126.
Published: 01 February 2003
... Fertility in Cohabiting Unions: Evidence for the Second Demographic Transition in the United States . Demography , 38 , 59 – 66 . 10.1353/dem.2001.0008 Rendall M.S. ( 1999 ). Entry or Exit? A Transition-Probability Approach to Explaining the High Prevalence of Single-Motherhood Among Black...
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Pathways of Early Fatherhood, Marriage, and Employment: A Latent Class Growth Analysis
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 593–623.
Published: 16 April 2011
... younger ages (before age 20), occurs outside marriage, or occurs outside full-time employment. The relative disadvantage associated with early fatherhood, unlike early motherhood, increases over the life course. 16 3 2011 16 4 2011 © Population Association of America 2011 2011 Early...
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The Educational Consequences of Teen Childbearing
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2129–2150.
Published: 27 September 2013
... motherhood on schooling vary widely, ranging from no discernible difference to 2.6 fewer years among teen mothers. The magnitude of educational consequences is therefore uncertain, despite voluminous policy and prevention efforts that rest on the assumption of a negative and presumably causal effect...
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Mothering Experiences: How Single Parenthood and Employment Structure the Emotional Valence of Parenting
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 649–674.
Published: 05 May 2016
... would account for associations among employment, single motherhood, and feelings in activities with children. We observe small changes in coefficient magnitude in a few cases, but in only one case do we see that significant associations in Model 1 are no longer statistically significant...
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View articletitled, Mothering Experiences: How <span class="search-highlight">Single</span> Parenthood and Employment Structure the Emotional Valence of Parenting
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Child gender and the transition to marriage
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 333–349.
Published: 01 May 2003
.... However, nonmarital childbearing can provide an alternate route to family formation; the love and companionship of a child may reduce the demand for a husband. Many recent studies, including the study by Bennett et al. (1995), have used the dura- tion of a spell of single motherhood, rather than...
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Family structure and dependency: Early transitions to female household headship
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 1988
.... 3 Those respondents who have out-of-wedlock births or who become formerly married mothers while remaining in their parental horne are not observed as having become single mothers. This is not a problem to the extent that female headship, rather than single motherhood, is the outcome of interest.4...
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